...Mark Jennings, ASME Mem.; Ravi Rangan, ASME Mem. A Model Management System (MMS) for vehicle dynamic system modeling is described, including lessons learned from a pilot implementation at Ford Motor Company. For complex vehicle systems, early phases of product development (requirements analysis...

...Y. Zeng; A. Pardasani ,; J. Dickinson ,; Z. Li ,; H. Antunes , and; V. Gupta; D. Baulier This paper aims to establish a mathematical foundation for modeling free-hand design sketches throughout the conceptual design process. Both experimental and theoretical approaches are used. In using...

...Chiara Eva Catalano; Bianca Falcidieno; Franca Giannini; Marina Monti The goal of this paper is to discuss the key issues in the computer-aided surface modeling tools used in the industrial aesthetic design workflow and to highlight the problems that still make styling activities difficult. Based...

... the production of a physical prototype requires the integration of a number of “software” models: an assembly model representing the manner in which the product is put together; an environment model providing a real world graphical context for the product; a behavior model representing how the product moves...

...Hong Gu, Graduate Research Assistant; Thomas R. Chase, Associate Professor; Douglas C. Cheney; Thomas “Tim” Bailey; Douglas Johnson Interoperability characterizes the ability of computer-aided design (CAD) models to accurately represent objects in concurrent engineering environments. The diagnostic...

...Rajarishi Sinha, Stud. Mem. ASME; Christiaan J. J. Paredis, Mem. ASME; Vei-Chung Liang, Stud. Mem. ASME; Pradeep K. Khosla, Mem. ASME This article presents an overview of the state-of-the art in modeling and simulation, and studies to which extent current simulation technologies can effectively...